His opening set at Woodstock has, from my perspective, made an indelible imprint on our history; and his performance there was certainly informative on my own social and musical path. I am grateful to him for touching my life with his music.

One of the hardest strummers I ever saw. His guitars always seemed to have a hole worn through from his beating them so hard. Great voice, great passion. Handsome Johnny is going through my head as I type this.

Amen, Bill! I loved Richie's performance in "Woodstock" and his great cover of "Here Comes The Sun" as well. I got to see a very interesting documentary in production in the 90's called "The Peace Tapes" that included a lengthy interview with Richie in Chicago while he was on tour. Another voice of harmony and soul has joined the choir above...